So Apple will just stick to intel on high-performance models, while using
ARM for everything else? That seems too optimistic to be true... that would
mean that Apple would have to develop 2 parallel versions of OS X at the
same time, one for ARM and other for Intel. This actually is nothing new,
Apple is messing with multiple different architectures at the same time for
the last 20 years (if not more), so they have vast experiences in that
field.

Anyway, I would love to see old-new PowerPCs in modern macs, but that is not
going to happen, I am afraid... As it was said, IBM is past 7th generation,
but Power architecture is meant for high-performance computing, not for
laptops and iMacs. Apple has actually the ability to build high-performance
PowerPCs (from PASemi), but I do not think that they are going to use this.

Btw. I thought that SSE3 has everything that Altivec offers. Can you explain
a little bit more, please?

Matevž

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